Archive for November, 2009:
filed in General Sciences on Nov.25, 2009
“Was Newton right and Einstein wrong? It seems that unzipping the fabric of spacetime and harking back to 19th-century notions of time could lead to a theory of quantum gravity.
Physicists have struggled to marry quantum mechanics with gravity for decades. In contrast, the other forces of nature have obediently fallen into line. For instance, the [...]
Tags: physics, quantum
filed in Mobile on Nov.24, 2009
15 of the best Windows Mobile Apps (via Techradar)
Tags: windows mobile
filed in Mobile on Nov.23, 2009
“Android is the hot phone platform, with market share growing at a rapid pace, and handsets with the OS being touted across the web. I have been impressed with how far Android has come in a relatively short time, and how well it has penetrated the market. Windows Mobile has seen recent updates, an all-too-infrequent [...]
Tags: android, windows mobile
filed in Google on Nov.23, 2009
“Some people are already convinced that Google will fail with its Chrome operating system. Others think that Chrome can’t possibly be a threat to Windows. Both groups are so, so wrong.
First, for those who think that Chrome is simply a failure from the word go, their reasoning is pathetically flawed. Chrome will fail because it’s [...]
Tags: chrome, google
filed in Google on Nov.19, 2009
“Until today, Google’s Chrome OS has been little more than a wordy concept. Now, finally, we truly know what it is, what it looks like, and how it works. Here’s the breakdown:
Google went to great pains to emphasize that today’s event wasn’t a launch—that’ll come a year from now, apparently, with a public beta still [...]
Tags: chrome, chrome os, google
filed in Mobile on Nov.17, 2009
“Do Opera Mobile, Skyfire, or Mozilla’s Fennec have the power to take down the BlackBerry browser, IE on Windows Mobile, or Safari on the iPhone? This lengthy test aimed to find out. Speed, Acid3 compliance, JavaScript rendering capabilities, and general subjective usability were all tested and reviewed. So were Opera Mini and the default Symbian [...]
Tags: blackberry, fennec, internet explorer, iphone, opera, safari, skyfire, windows mobile
filed in Linux/Unix on Nov.17, 2009
“If you’re wondering what the folks over at KDE have been cooking up for the next major release, KDE 4.4, well, quite a bit as it turns out. In a lengthy interview, KDE core developer and spokesperson for the project Sebastian Kugler details the myriad changes that are coming with the 4.4 release — the [...]
Tags: KDE
filed in Mobile on Nov.15, 2009
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filed in Google on Nov.13, 2009
“Google’s Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we’ve heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall.
What can we expect? Driver support will likely be a weak point. We’ve heard at various times that Google has [...]
Tags: chrome os, google
filed in Mobile on Nov.12, 2009
“Microsoft’s added a couple updates to its mobile app store. On the developers’ side of things there’s a new portal for submission, and more advanced anti-piracy protection. There’s now an online store that you can use from your certainly superior desktop / laptop browser. In the vein of Xbox Live Marketplace’s online portal at Xbox.com, [...]
Tags: microsoft, windows mobile, windows phone, wm